# Cognitive Warfare and Ideological Transmission [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]] moves information and cognition inside the weapon system. NATO describes the brain as both target and weapon; the NATO Defense College describes weaponized information as exploiting cognitive vulnerabilities to alter perception. The route includes [[wiki/Weaponized Ideology|Weaponized Ideology]], [[wiki/Information Weapon|Information Weapon]], [[wiki/Mass-Effect Cognitive Weapon|Mass-Effect Cognitive Weapon]], [[wiki/Weapon of Mass Influence|Weapon of Mass Influence]], [[wiki/Weapon of Mass Persuasion|Weapon of Mass Persuasion]], [[wiki/Ideological Payload|Ideological Payload]], [[wiki/Memetic Vector|Memetic Vector]], [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]], and [[wiki/Network as Transport Medium|Network as Transport Medium]]. The historical atrocity-preparation route passes through [[wiki/Nazi Propaganda|Nazi Propaganda]], [[wiki/Ideological Preparation for Genocide|Ideological Preparation for Genocide]], and [[wiki/Direct and Public Incitement to Genocide|Direct and Public Incitement to Genocide]]. Propaganda and ideology did not independently perform mass killing; they organized, licensed, motivated, and normalized action through a state, military, police, bureaucracy, transport system, industry, collaborators, and war. The mass effect emerged from the coupled system. ## Relationships [[wiki/Counterterrorism Collection - Terrorism and Radicalization|Terrorism and Radicalization]] · [[wiki/Counterterrorism Collection - Counter-WMD|Counter-WMD]] · [[research/Dangerous Individuals, Weaponized Ideology, and Mass-Effect Systems|Research dossier]]